Job summary
o Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice.o Enhancing the patient's experience.o Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation's objectives.o Efficient and effective use of resources.
Main duties of the job
Ensure a high standard of safe clinical care and record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, national legislation and local standards.Take personal responsibility for actions and omissions, and fully recognise personal accountability.Practice within an ethical framework based upon dignity and respect for the well-being and safety of patients and clients.Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence based practice within own work area.Contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based protocols,standards, policies and clinical guidelines within own work area.Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement through the use of audit, patient feedback and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team.Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and critical incident reporting and root cause analysis.Demonstrate effective communication within the multi-professional team regarding patient care.Undertake interventional procedures with appropriate consent
About us
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trustprovides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and we are continually upgrading. Construction of the new integrated critical care unit was completed in 2018, extension of a Neonatal Unit and an approved plan to build a brand new, state of the art Emergency Department which commenced in 2021
We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from multiple sites covering Walsall. Our multidisciplinary services include rapid response and homebased care, so that those with long term conditions and the frail elderly can remain in their own homes.
We are recommended by colleagues as a place to work which is supported by the trusts values to work as part of a team, being respectful, compassionate and professional. We are committed to investing in our workforce
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and job specification for full details.
This role will be as clinical nurse specialist for patient who have AKI as an inpatient. You would be expected to see patients with AKI on wards, ED and any other department.
This would be to support the nursing and admitting medical team to implement national standards for treatment of AKI.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and job specification for full details.
This role will be as clinical nurse specialist for patient who have AKI as an inpatient. You would be expected to see patients with AKI on wards, ED and any other department.
This would be to support the nursing and admitting medical team to implement national standards for treatment of AKI.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registration Nurse/ NMC Registration Midwife,
- Degree level education [e.g. Registration/specialty related/mentorship]
- Evidence of professional updating within last 12 months
- Relevant post graduate specialty qualification or equivalent experience and knowledge
Experience
Essential
- Complex reasoning
- Critical thinking, reflection and analysis to inform clinical assessments
- Clinical judgements and decision making
- Ability to apply knowledge and skills to a broad range of clinically and professionally challenging situations
- Influencing skills
- Data input, collection, analysis, audit and evaluation Standard keyboard skills and knowledge of a number of IT packages such as excel, Word, PAS, e-rostering etc.
- Knowledge of current NHS policy and their implication for services
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal skills, exemplary record keeping
- Ability to communicate with, and other professions, patients/carers
- Positive and enthusiastic role model
- Ability to communicate empathetically with Patients, Relatives and or Carers o when discussing/explaining clinical conditions and potentially distressing and o sensitive information such as breaking bad news o Offer reassurance and persuasion in highly emotive
Other
Essential
- Flexible approach to work Some 'out of hours' working to meet the needs of the service
Desirable
- Physical ability to work in a variety of clinical and non-clinical environments
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registration Nurse/ NMC Registration Midwife,
- Degree level education [e.g. Registration/specialty related/mentorship]
- Evidence of professional updating within last 12 months
- Relevant post graduate specialty qualification or equivalent experience and knowledge
Experience
Essential
- Complex reasoning
- Critical thinking, reflection and analysis to inform clinical assessments
- Clinical judgements and decision making
- Ability to apply knowledge and skills to a broad range of clinically and professionally challenging situations
- Influencing skills
- Data input, collection, analysis, audit and evaluation Standard keyboard skills and knowledge of a number of IT packages such as excel, Word, PAS, e-rostering etc.
- Knowledge of current NHS policy and their implication for services
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal skills, exemplary record keeping
- Ability to communicate with, and other professions, patients/carers
- Positive and enthusiastic role model
- Ability to communicate empathetically with Patients, Relatives and or Carers o when discussing/explaining clinical conditions and potentially distressing and o sensitive information such as breaking bad news o Offer reassurance and persuasion in highly emotive
Other
Essential
- Flexible approach to work Some 'out of hours' working to meet the needs of the service
Desirable
- Physical ability to work in a variety of clinical and non-clinical environments
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
